2016-17 salaries of Virginia state employees

Published Tuesday, Oct. 24th, 2017

The Richmond Times-Dispatch obtained state employees’ names, job titles and salaries using the state’s Freedom of Information statute. As required by law, the state provided compensation information for more than 105,000 employees.

The FOI request for the fiscal year that began July 1, 2016, and ended June 30, 2017, is part of The Times-Dispatch’s ongoing effort to report to you findings about government spending and the use of taxpayer money. The newspaper used the data to create this searchable database.

State officials say the information represents a snapshot of compensation as of April 1, 2017.

The Times-Dispatch removed those reported as less than $10,000 a year before calculating the median salary of $50,082. The names of employees who fall below that median are not included in the online database.

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Pay by agency Median | Average

Hover over chart for details. Agencies listed alphabetically. Scroll right to see more agencies.

Average and median are slightly different ways to evaluate pay. The median salary represents the total payments made to the employee at the midpoint of all salaries. The average pay is the amount each employee would make if total payroll was divided equally. The greater the gap between average and median, the more top-heavy an organization is. This sometimes is the result of payroll with higher numbers of specialized jobs that command higher pay.